Program of the Fifth International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology

(ALT V)

September 15 to 18, 2003 - Cagliari (Italy)
 


Monday, 15 September 2003
 

Workshop
Lexical typology (or lexical semantics in a cross-linguistic perspective),

organized by Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (University of Stockholm).

09.15 - 09.30 Opening session

(Marianne Mithun, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm)


09.30 - 10.00 Plungian, Vladimir & Rakhilina, Ekaterina (Moscow):
Flying in cross-linguistic perspective


10.00 - 10.30 Payne, Doris (Oregon):

Lexicalization of Semantic Features in Maa movement verbs


10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break


11.00 - 11.30 Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (Stockholm) and Frans Plank
(Konstanz):

Temperature in cross-linguistic perspective


11.30 - 12.00 Viberg, Åke (Uppsala):

Towards a general typology of verbs from a lexical semantic perspective


12.00 - 12.30 Reid, Nicholas (University of New England, Australia):                                    

Recurrent nominal lexical bases in Ngan'gityemerri


12.30 - 13.00 Shmelev, Alexej ( Moscow):

Folk anatomy and physiology in cross-linguistic perspective

13.00 - 14.30 Buffet

14.30 - 15.00
Galina Yavorska (Kyiv):

Basic BLUE in Ukrainian in the typological perspective

 

15.00 - 15.30 Kibrik, Andrej A. (Moscow):

Lexical semantics as a key to typological anomalies

 

15.30 - 16.00 Khanina, Olga (Moscow):

Desire: from lexical to grammatical typology and back


16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break


16.30 - 17.00 Vanhove, Martine & Henault-Sakhno, Christine (Paris):

A cross-linguistic comparison of polysemy and semantic change (in
languages of Africa, America, Europe, Oceania)


17.00 - 17.30 Zalizniak, Anna A. (Moscow):

A catalogue of semantic parallels as a database for semantic typology


17.30 - 18.00 Koch, Peter (Tübingen):

A three-dimensional approach to motivation in lexical typology


18.00 - 18.15 Coffee break


18.15 - 18.45 Wälchli, Benhard (Berne / Stockholm):

A typology of the regressive (a lexical class type)

 

18.45 - 19.15 Concluding discussion


 

 

 

Tuesday 16 September 2003


09.00 - 09.30 Opening session

 

09.30 - 10.00 Bickel, Balthasar (Leipzig) & Johanna Nichols (Berkeley):

Typological enclaves


10.00 - 10.30 Schultze-Berndt, Eva (Leipzig):

When finite and non-finite verbs are distinct parts of speech: The contribution of Northern Australian languages to a typology of (non-)finiteness and a typology of word classes

 

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break


11.00 - 11.30 Malchukov, Andrej L. (Nijmegen):

Towards a typology of transcategorial operations


11.30 - 12.00 Sumbatova, Nina (Moscow):

Verbal person and inverse (some evidence of the East Caucasian languages)


12.00 - 12.30 Michael Cysouw (Berlin):

Towards a typology of pronominal cliticization


12.30 - 14.30

14.30 - 15.00 Comrie, Bernard (Leipzig):

Copper Island Aleut, morphological typology, and constraints on borrowing


15.00 - 15.30 Whaley, Lindsay (Hanover, NH):

The person case constraint as a universal


15.30 - 16.00 Jean-Christophe Verstraete (Leuven):

A typology of irrealis mood in Australian languages


16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break


16.30 - 17.00 Cristofaro, Sonia (Pavia):

Past habituals and irrealis


17.00 - 17.30 Dobrushina, Nina (Moscow):

Zooming into modality's semantic map: focus on volitionals


17.30 - 18.00 Friedman, Victor A. (Chicago):

Language contact and the typology of evidentials in the Balkans


18.00 - 18.15 Coffee break


18.15 - 18.45 Maisak, Timur (Moscow):

Auxiliary verbs as perfectivizing devices


18.45 - 19.15 Tatevosov, Sergei (Moscow):

Situational diminutives: towards a typology




Wednesday, 17 September 2003

 


 

08.45 - 09.15 Næss, Åshild (Nijmegen):

Intransitive eating: the affected agent and its challenge to theories of transitivity


09.15 - 09.45 Erlenkamp, Sonja (Oslo):

On the notion of subject in Norwegian sign language


09.45 - 10.15 Coffee break


10.15 - 10.45 Brown, Lea (Leipzig):

Nias: an exception to universals of argument-marking


10.45 - 11.15 Denis Creissels (Lyon):

Are there 'indirect objects' in African languages?


11.15 - 11.30 Coffee break


11.30 - 12.00 Peter Schmidt (Trier):

Multiple marking of designated arguments by resumptive agreement


12.00 - 12.30 Silvia Luraghi (Pavia):

Definite referential null objects and the typology of pronouns


12.30 - 13.00 Daniel, Michael (Moscow):

Towards a Typology of personal locatives. Problem setting


13.00 - 15.00

15.00 - 15.30 Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (Deusto/Bilbao):
Intra-typological variation in motion events.


15.30 - 16.00 Bernhard Wälchli (Berne / Stockholm) & Fernando Zuñiga (Leipzig):

The typology of head and dependent marking in displacement


16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break


16.30 - 19.00 Business meeting

20.00 - Dinner / Cena sociale



Thursday, 18 September 2003


08.15 - 08.45 Dryer, Matthew S. (Buffalo):

Case prefixes


08.45 - 09.15 Darnell, Michael (Wisconsin-Milwaukee) & Noonan,
Michael (Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
:

An investigation of referential density in the languages of the world


09.15 - 09.45 Michael Fortescue (Copenhagen):

Analytic vs synthetic constructions in Chukchi


09.45 - 10.15 Coffee break


10.15 - 10.45 Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon & August Fenk (Klagenfurt):
Crosslinguistic correlations between size of syllables, number of cases, and adposition order


10.45 - 11.15
Butskhrikidze, Marika (Leiden):

Word-phonotactics: domains and principles


11.15 - 11.45 Miestamo, Matti (Helsinki):

A typology of clausal negation: symmetric vs. asymmetric


11.45 - 12.00 Coffee break


12.00 - 12.30 Filimonova, Elena (Konstanz):

Personal pronouns and the puzzle of definiteness


12.30 - 13.00 König, Ekkehard & Gast, Volker (Berlin):

Towards a typology of intensifiers

13.00 - 15.00

15.00 - 15.30 Gensler, Orin D.  (Leipzig):

"Move the bare adposition": an unrecognized relativization strategy


15.30 - 16.00 Nikolaeva, Irina (Konstanz):

Possessor advancement within the noun phrase


16.00 - 16.30  Marchello-Nizia, Christiane & Sörés, Anna (Lyon):
Compared chronologies of change of type: how to go from one type to
another


16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break


17.00 - 17.30 Plank, Frans (Konstanz):

Delocutive verbs in typological perspective


17.30 - 18.00 Hagège, Claude (Paris):

Whatted we to interrogative verbs?


18.00 - 18.15 Conclusion of the conference